Announcements

The National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs has prepared a graphical timeline of telescopes at the South Pole. It's available for free and makes a great tool for education and public engagement.

The AAS, in partnership with IOP Publishing, now allows journal authors to change their names on previously published research. This reflects our commitment to an open, supportive, and inclusive research environment.

The National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 new members, including nine members of the AAS, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

This AAS Education Committee blog provides a brief overview of how funding from the AAS EDP Mini-Grants Program was used to organize and execute a career panel at the Center for Astrophysics.

To make the analysis of astronomical images more accessible to the blind and visually impaired, the Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy team have designed the Afterglow Access software.

This grant program is open to graduate students, postdocs, faculty, other professional scientists, and disciplinary society staff who are conducting research on STEM graduate education. Deadline: 30 June 2021.

The quarterly Arecibo Observatory newsletter features science highlights and updates about the telescope, staff, and current education programs. Read the spring newsletter online.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, AAS Amateur Affiliate Alan Agrawal writes about the supernova of 1006 CE.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Michael E. Marotta writes about the discovery of the strong magnetic field between Earth and the Moon.

Graduate-school departments can use our new form to share their progress toward implementing the recommendations of the AAS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education.

In this blog post, guest author L. M. Rebull of Caltech suggests a new way of thinking about the diversity of programs that get astronomy data into the hands of teachers and students.

Please help us edit the institutional listings for the 2021 AAS Membership Directory. The deadline for updates is Wednesday, 28 April.

Dr. Kathryn Sullivan — who ascended to orbit to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope and descended to the deepest spot in the ocean — will discuss her career with the Atlantic's James Fallows on 20 April.

Chad Kālepa Baybayan, who with his daughter Kala Baybayan Tanaka gave a plenary lecture on traditional Polynesian navigation at the 235th AAS meeting in Honolulu in January 2020, has died at age 65.

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy seeks new members to help build an inclusive and self-sustaining community that supports gender equity and the success of women in astronomy. Apply by May 1st.